{"id":1797,"date":"2018-10-23T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2018-10-23T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:46:53","slug":"nuclear-weapons-build-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"nuclear weapons build-up, again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday President Trump said he was pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. \u00a0His administration&#8217;s contention is that Russia is breaking the treaty by building and testing a new class of weapons. \u00a0The treaty bans ground launched ballistic and cruise missiles that have a range from 300 to 3,400 miles. \u00a0According to the book the <em>Nuclear Age Reader<\/em>, Russian &#8220;strategic [nuclear] force expansion&#8221; has forced the U.S. to abandon its commitment to strategic superiority, and it has further driven the U.S. to settle for detente as the best framework for bilateral super-power relations. \u00a0Trump&#8217;s move, in tandem with his expressed intentions to ramp up our nuclear weapons development, could well start another Cold War Arms Race. \u00a0Our administration, on the other hand, would look to parity with Russia in a bilateral &#8212; or even unilateral (taking the lead) &#8212; nuclear arms <em>reduction. \u00a0<\/em>With, eventually (and sooner than later), this going all the way to: zero. \u00a0Why? \u00a0See the section in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/military-c88k\">military paper on: &#8220;nuclear weapons.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday President Trump said he was pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. \u00a0His administration&#8217;s contention is that Russia is breaking the treaty by building and testing a new class of weapons. \u00a0The treaty bans ground <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1797\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}